LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Belgian Trawler
TOW ROPE PARTED Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 11.20 p.m. on 9th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Belgian trawler was towing another Belgian trawler whose engine had broken down off St. Annes Head. The tow tope...
Whiffle
SPEED-BOAT TOWED At 2 p.m. on i6th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Whiffle was in danger of being swamped one mile and a half south-east of Lulworth hi a fresh to strong west-south-westerly wind...
Elsie Mabel
DRAGGING HER ANCHOR At 9.30 p.m. on ioth May, 1965, the coast life-saving service reported that a fishing vessel was in difficulties off the coast north-west of Galway Bay. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put to sea at 10 p.m. in a...
Lady Gay
flfracombe, Devon.—At 12.45 in the afternoon, on the 13th of May, 1951,the coastguard telephoned that Bull Point lighthouse reported a motor yacht burning a red flare off Brandy Cove. At 1.0 the life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was...
Sheen
Barrow, Lancashire. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 13th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a half-decked fishing boat had anchored near the Bar buoy and that a man was waving a flag. There was a light...
Hebe 2
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 3rd July, 1961, the police at Benllech informed the honor- ary secretary that a small boat flying a distress signal off Red Wharf bay was drifting out to sea. A fresh south-south- westerly...
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Galway. Early on the morning of the 23rd September, 1961, three men from Inishere Island rowed nine miles in an open boat to Kilronan to summon a doctor to attend a sick person on the island. Telephone communications with the island had...
The Preston Pilot Cutter St. Anne
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 9.45 on the morning of the 23rd November, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the Preston pilot cutter St. Anne had asked for the help of the life-boat as she had broken...
Durhambrook
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 7.13 on the evening of the 7th December, 1961, the motor mechanic passed on to the honorary secretary a message from the coastguard at Orlock. This was that the motor vessel Durhambrook of London had asked for the...
Earn of Fraserburgh
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Arbroath, Angus. At 8.53 on the evening of the 28th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a fishing vessel was firing distress rockets two miles off Auchmithie.
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